I have used Evernote to take notes while doing the reading for the course. I found, while I need much more experience with the tool, using Evernote allowed me to write and organize what I felt were the important points in the book. I did practice using notebooks, but I did not use the Web Clipper but did experiment with it and can see where it could be very useful. Due to the short time period of this course and the reality of taking two courses during this time period, I did not have the time to develop use of Evernote My organizational skills have always been my greatest weakness, my current PKB organizational scheme involves the use of folders, and I have placed information in hundreds of folders stored in my documents, on my computer. The problem with this system is finding the folder efficiently; I sometimes spend hours locating the proper folders to create a new a lesson or lecture, clearly a waste of time. The information is there, but like having useful things around the house, if you cannot find it have no value. When I have more time I will begin to take some of my important folders and place them in Evernote. As an administrator, (Science Teacher Leader) it would be much easier to share this information with staff members preparing to teach a new course. The knowledge of your own thoughts and the factors that influence your thinking, I had to look up the definition. This is not a simple question to answer. The factors that influence my thinking are a combination of my experiences. In my 62 years, I have had careers in both the private and public sectors. The different pressures placed on me by these experiences have allowed me appreciate various methods used while approaching a task, when to rely on past experience, and when to look for new approaches. During my teaching career, I started as a vocational teacher where all lessons were project based, to at one point using a more traditional lecture lab approach. While realize the merits of both methods, I know from experience that education has changed, and a combination of both approaches must be used. The fact remains that teaching alone will not help a student learn the information necessary in this information packed world that we live in. Students equipped with basic information must be able to take that information and apply it to their personal responsibility of learning. The question is what does this have to do with Evernote? In my AP Biology, and AP Environmental science class students, to be successful, must due the required readings and somehow record this information for use on weekly assignments, tests, and AP test preparation. The help the students organize their knowledge; I hand out guided reading sheets developed by a colleague. These sheets have the students write down the section topic, essential question, major concepts, and key vocabulary. I think they help organize thoughts, but during the school year hundreds of pages are created and organization is a real problem so they not be as valuable as a study tool, and future reference tool, they also cannot add clips, charts, photos, etc. I do think I could use the same format and have the students place the information and more in an Evernote notebook. The notebook will not only be a good study resource, but I always tell the students that the most important reason for taking a class is the information they take away from it. In the past I would check three ring binders, but that became time consuming and most of those binders will discarded as soon as the school year ended. I feel this approach has promise and I will try it during the next school year. Since all of our textbooks are online, Evernote would be especially useful.
I did practice using notebooks, but I did not use the Web Clipper but did experiment with it and can see where it could be very useful.
Due to the short time period of this course and the reality of taking two courses during this time period, I did not have the time to develop use of Evernote
My organizational skills have always been my greatest weakness, my current PKB organizational scheme involves the use of folders, and I have placed information in hundreds of folders stored in my documents, on my computer. The problem with this system is finding the folder efficiently; I sometimes spend hours locating the proper folders to create a new a lesson or lecture, clearly a waste of time. The information is there, but like having useful things around the house, if you cannot find it have no value. When I have more time I will begin to take some of my important folders and place them in Evernote. As an administrator, (Science Teacher Leader) it would be much easier to share this information with staff members preparing to teach a new course.
The knowledge of your own thoughts and the factors that influence your thinking, I had to look up the definition. This is not a simple question to answer. The factors that influence my thinking are a combination of my experiences.
In my 62 years, I have had careers in both the private and public sectors. The different pressures placed on me by these experiences have allowed me appreciate various methods used while approaching a task, when to rely on past experience, and when to look for new approaches.
During my teaching career, I started as a vocational teacher where all lessons were project based, to at one point using a more traditional lecture lab approach. While realize the merits of both methods, I know from experience that education has changed, and a combination of both approaches must be used.
The fact remains that teaching alone will not help a student learn the information necessary in this information packed world that we live in.
Students equipped with basic information must be able to take that information and apply it to their personal responsibility of learning.
The question is what does this have to do with Evernote? In my AP Biology, and AP Environmental science class students, to be successful, must due the required readings and somehow record this information for use on weekly assignments, tests, and AP test preparation. The help the students organize their knowledge; I hand out guided reading sheets developed by a colleague. These sheets have the students write down the section topic, essential question, major concepts, and key vocabulary. I think they help organize thoughts, but during the school year hundreds of pages are created and organization is a real problem so they not be as valuable as a study tool, and future reference tool, they also cannot add clips, charts, photos, etc.
I do think I could use the same format and have the students place the information and more in an Evernote notebook. The notebook will not only be a good study resource, but I always tell the students that the most important reason for taking a class is the information they take away from it. In the past I would check three ring binders, but that became time consuming and most of those binders will discarded as soon as the school year ended. I feel this approach has promise and I will try it during the next school year. Since all of our textbooks are online, Evernote would be especially useful.